During the last years an increasing number of discussions, forums, blogs and publications have surfaced depicting Ayurveda as a critically endangered medical species, threatened in particular by modern Western developments and globalization. The latest fear-raising stories to unfold portray integrative and complementary medicine as post-colonial allopathic relabeling-conspiracies with the goal to absorb Ayurveda´s crown jewels into a black medical hole of integrative whateverism without giving credit to Ayurveda.
Key words: Internationalizing Ayurveda, Research
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